Aldo, the beloved donkey who has been entertaining visitors and residents of the Old City who come to see him over the stone wall in the courtyard of the Cathedral of the Holy Trinity for the past six years, is moving on to greener pastures.

Andrew Stuart Johnson Memorial High School in Thetford Mines held its graduation ceremony on June 17. The official ceremony was held at the school following a photo session with the 12 graduates at the home of Aline Visser.

The books and rulers may have been put away at St. Patrick’s High School, but work continues on bricks and mortar. Scaffolding went up a few weeks ago on the three-storey building at the corner of Rue de Maisonneuve and Avenue de Salaberry. Since then workers have been stripping old bricks from the structure to make way for a facade of new bricks.

Quebec City - The Morrin Centre is growing its membership and last fall set a goal for 150 new members by Canada Day 2017, the 150th anniversary of the Canadian Confederation. We are proud to announce that we have reached our goal. Building on this success, we have set ourselves a new challenge: 150 additional members by the end of the year.

The anniversary celebration 150 years in the making is coming to its big finale, finally. Not that it’s not a good thing to toast such a milestone in the history of a country so obviously successful and admired as ours.